techno_literacy

This is an interesting story talking about how downloading Chrome will allow Google to run it's operating system (via the cloud) on any computer.

A link to this report from the Census Bureau shows that smart phones are helping bridge the digital divide.

The Corvallis School district has purchased 1,720 new iPads as a part of its effort to put learning technology in the hands of every student in Corvallis by 2014-15. Rob Singleton, technology services manager for the district, told the school board Aug.

Playlist of videos about data/internet and its affects on Journalism.

In a recent article for The Telegraph, Sugata Mitra, professor of educational technology at Newcastle University, claimed that in today's technologically-advanced world that there was no place for teaching grammar or spelling as the technology would correct it for us.

On Wednesday, Facebook announced that it, along with a coalition of several mobile technology companies, was launching Internet.org, an organization aiming to dramatically increase Internet access to "the two-thirds of the world who are not yet connected."

Is auto-tuning a new tool for music literacy, allowing us to sing in new ways the way that writing technologies have helped us to write an communicate more quickly? Or is false?

This is a good article explaining some of the ways colleges have been using twitter in there classes.

http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/introduction-electronic-publishing-start-story-ideas http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/article/introduction-electronic-publishing-tools